Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ervin committee had hoped that Nixon would file a motion to quash the subpoenas, a step that would put the burden of proof on the President's attorneys. Instead, Nixon's men elected to ignore all the subpoenas, simply issuing a letter of refusal and leaving the burden of legal initiative on the committee and on Cox. Immediately, the committee, voting by hand on camera in the hearing room, moved to sue the President for the tapes and documents...
...people he encounters are scarcely less abstract than their settings, juiceless and lifeless. Going to a Tati movie for laughs is about as practical as going to an exhibition of Mondrian paintings with the same goal in mind, though the painter may actually excel the actor in terms of motion and emotion. · Richard Schickel
...year-old small-family firm, launched on $40 and the scrawny figure of a four-fingered mouse, has grown to encompass two of the country's major tourist attractions-Disneyland and Disney World; motion-picture-and television-producing Buena Vista studios; WED Enterprises, an engineering and design group that is fondly known as the "imagineers" and is responsible for many of the technological wonders of Disneyland and Disney World; several hotels, a travel service, a record company, a music-publishing corporation and a touring company; toy-manufacturing and merchandising operations; the governments of two legally constituted municipalities within Disney...
...that Thrower had refused. Walters had a "No comment" on Dean's story. Present IRS Commissioner Donald C. Alexander, who has had the job only since May 17, promised to resist any attempts to use the IRS for political purposes. Dean's testimony also set in motion an investigation by the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, chaired by the formidable Wilbur Mills. The IRS has launched a probe to find out who authorized the audits of Gibbons and Greene. That may be impossible to discover. Dean said he had been told that all that is required...
Though the astronauts were queasy in their first hours back on earth, they have since developed a higher than usual resistance to motion sickness. The curious phenomenon is apparently connected with the prolonged exposure to zero-G of the balance mechanism in the inner ear-a tolerance that the doctors believe will soon disappear...